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Spartacus (1960 Film) [SOUNDTRACK]

Alex North
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (May 14, 1991)
  • Original Release Date: October 7, 1960
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Mca
  • ASIN: B000002OGF
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #170,680 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

 
1. Main Title
2. Spartcus Love Theme
3. Gladiators Fight to the Death
4. Blue Shadows and Purple Hills
5. Homeward Bound: on to the Sea/Beside the Pool
6. Hopeful Preparations, Vesuvius Camp
7. Prelude to Battle: Quiet Interlude/Final Conflice
8. On to Vesuvius: Forward, Gladiators/Forest Meeting
9. Oysters and Snails - Festival
10. Headed for Freedom
11. Goodbye, My Life, My Love/End Title

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Score But Not Complete, February 21, 2002
By D. A Wend (Buffalo Grove, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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Listening to Alex North's score for Spartacus again after several years of not having a copy is a revelation. I had a copy of the LP version of the score and it is good to see the notes included in the booklet. Mr. North was among the best and most original film composers that Hollywood can claim. Yet, in spite of 15 Oscar nominations he received only an honorary award! His music is perfect for Spartacus evoking not only the passions of the characters but a feeling for the later first century BCE. My only regret is that the overture and exit music is omitted from the recording. It would be a far better disc if some additional tracks were lifted from the soundtrack and included here. As it is, the playing time is 40:32. This is a great CD that could have been better.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Score, Terrible Mastering, August 1, 2000
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Too bad there's no score isolation on the Spartacus DVD because the mastering of the CD sountrack is absolutely terrible. Hiss abounds everywhere, instruments are blurred together--there's absolutely no separation. In a nutshell, this CD hardly sounds better than the LP, which is a shame, since it's one of the greatest scores ever. Fans of the score should know that the Criterion laserdisc of Spartacus featured various tracks which did not make it to the film. They were all absolutely beautiful. So just know that not only does Spartacus receive a painfully bad mastering, but also that there are quite a few unheard tracks rotting away in some studio vault, heard only by a few who bought the brilliant Criterion Collection LD set.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Roman military power, decadence, fantastic excesses., January 28, 2000
By DJ Rix (NJ USA) - See all my reviews
With all due respect to Miklos Rosza, "Ben Hur" isn't far from the musical worlds of his "El Cid" or "King of Kings" scores. It's still Miklos. But North's "Spartacus" score has a truly pagan flavor, as does the film itself. Arming his orchestra with a wonderful array of percussion & an early electronic instrument called an ondioline, North captured the decadence, fantastic excesses, & especially the military precision of the Romans. He also composed a love theme of such delicacy that jazz musicians adopted it as a near-standard. Certainly, "Spartacus" is classic movie music, in a class with the best "modernist" scores by Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Ennio Morricone, & even Prokofiev.

Bob Rixon, WFMU
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4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful but incomplete
Having listened to this wonderful music by Mr. North, I must concur with some of the previous reviewers - this is great CD that could have been much better with the inclusion of... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Jim Ziegler "Zig"

1.0 out of 5 stars An awful sign of the times, The composition of a blind man?
Standing alone, yes this musical score is impressive.
Understanding that at the time it was composed this composition style was common and unfortunately that "sixties... Read more
Published on August 13, 2007 by E. Trusty

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Alex North.
This is a powerful score by Alex North and I think he should have won the Oscar in 1960 for Best Original Score. Read more
Published on July 22, 2004 by Alex North

5.0 out of 5 stars Where's the rest?
A previous reviewer states that the absence of the complete score on cd is the 'biggest whole in the catalog'. It's worse than that - it's a travesty. Read more
Published on May 1, 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Companion piece to the composer's own "Cleopatra"
They don't make 'em like this any more: triumphant, passionate, soaring, reverential, militaristic, and inspirational. Read more
Published on November 20, 2002 by Reginald D. Garrard

5.0 out of 5 stars Spartacus- Classic music for an epic film
Not much to say. Great music for a great movie. These were the type of movies that made Hollywood great (Spartacus, El Cid, Ben Hur, etc.). Read more
Published on September 9, 2002 by Joseph A. Basinger

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good suite of the highlights of the motion picture
In my opinion this is a very good CD. Since it comes from an LP Record it is not very long, only 40 minutes. But it contains the highlights of the film. Read more
Published on February 19, 2002 by Juan Alberto Diaz Wiechers

4.0 out of 5 stars CLASSIC SCORE!
Like at least one other reviewer here I first saw the film and heard the soundtrack when I was in my early teens, and it had a profound effect on me. Read more
Published on August 28, 2000 by paul packer

5.0 out of 5 stars Music of Freedom
It hardly seems forty years since I saw Spartacus. One of the most "intelligent" historical spectacles ever made, it is a fitting tribute to the late Stanley Kubrick,... Read more
Published on January 21, 2000 by James D. Eret

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly inspirational and moving.
Very rarely in life does a work of art effect you profoundly for ever. So has this soundtrack effected me from the first time I heard it in 1960 when I was just 13. Read more
Published on March 21, 1999

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